Blog, posts for Category 'Tech porn'

... and it gives me the creeps.

(Via photoshelter .)

This is way cool...

Wi-Fi geography/analysis :

Follow the link and watch the animation showing the various visualisations... It's really interesting to see our information flows patterns laid out like this.
The future is here.

(Via City of Sound.)

Check out this amazing video on how the 3D computer animation of the Death Star attack simulation was done for Star Wars, Episode IV.
This is pretty amazing, especially the point where the guy explains how he can rotate the 3D models by turning dials on some sort of giant console. Also, animating one single frame (and we're talking monochrome wireframe here) took all of two minutes... Jeez!

Now, go watch the New Trilogy Making Of on the DVD edition...

This is a truly beautiful mod, and one which probably required countless hours and huge skills.

(via Gizmodo.)

A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World's Densest Meet-Me Room:

In the bowels of the world's most densely populated Meet-Me room -- a room where over 260 ISPs connect their networks to each other -- a phalanx of cabling spills out of its containers and silently pumps the world's information to your computer screen.

Jeez, and I thought my cabling was a nightmare!